About

             CARLA J. BRANDT

                      CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Carla Brandt offers three decades of extraordinary success in a series of high level roles at top tier companies that include The Real Estate Council Inc. and The Arthritis Foundation.  Carla Brandt has also successfully managed 8 international projects for various accounting projects in Africa, Cuba, Columbia, Dubai, India, Singapore, and Syria requiring her to utilize her skills in Finance, Forensics Accounting and Financial Accounting.  Carla’s invaluable expertise and broad business range have powered a history of developing successful process improvements that drive productivity, reliability, and client satisfaction.  Such traits have consistently enabled Carla to achieve an impressive command of the skills needed to manage ongoing business planning processes while developing strategies to meet future challenges.

With a forte for successfully building strong teams and holding a key role leading all facets of finance and strategy, Ms. Brandt has successfully positioned herself as a leading expert with respect to the application of best business and finance practices contributing to the following successes:

  • Maintains accountability for the preparation of all financial statements, preparation of tax filings, and administration of budgets and cash flow.  Also, executes responsibility for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and database management.
  • Credited with designing and implementing a budget system.  Spearheaded the design and deployment of internal controls and led a conversion of accounting to SQL software.
  • Oversees all facets of Human Resources for the organization, with authority over HR policy and procedure development, as well as the hiring and onboarding of new employees.

Our philosophy is to not only provide confidence in your financial records, but to provide strategies to improve the way you manage your financial and operational environment.

TESTIMONIALS

Karen Stern

I have worked with many CFO’s in my career and Carla Brandt has exceeded in both skill and competence anyone I had worked with.   When Carla Brandt opted to transition into her own business after being with The Arthritis Foundation for almost 12 years and working with her personally, almost 9 of those years, was a devastating day for me and our organization.  She ran our financial department with such diligence and understanding to ensure all the staff understood their responsibility to our donors and constituents.  I had complete trust and faith in her ability and her dedication to ensure we operated at a high level.

Karen Stern

Lisa J. Brodsky

Carla, with Brandt Financial Services, saved our agency.  I learned about Carla from a dear friend.  I had just become CEO of a nonprofit (first job as a CEO) and our Director of Finance walked out after two weeks of me being there.  I called Carla and she came to the rescue.  The organization was straddling two different financial soft wares, Quickbooks and Blackbaud’s Financial Edge.

Carla was able to help us get all our finances into  Financial Edge.  She taught us to allocate the overhead, helped me with payroll, helped me create a budget, designed a template for all staff expenses (that we still use today), helped connect Raisers Edge (donation software) with Financial Edge, helped me hire a new Director of Finance, coached them through the first 3 months of their job, presented at Finance and Board meetings, met with our auditors, and worked with me for almost a year to bring best practices to our  accounting department .

I would highly recommend Brandt Financial Services to any organization that requires a true, experienced expert, a patient and dedicated professional and an all-around sweet and generous person.

You rock!

Lisa J. Brodsky

Fred G. Currey

Carla Brandt has a remarkable broad intelligence.  She has taken intuitive understanding of the business world, FIT liability, managing assets, cash flow, how personal actions that produce losses and taxable income affect the bottom line and turned my companies around.  Her analysis and expertise of managing a business enables her clients to maximize income and she provides full confidence in her decision making.

Fred G. Currey

Steve Melchin

Carla has prepared our tax returns for the past 10 years.  Her attentiveness to our questions and concerns when preparing our tax filings offers us the security and confidence that everything is being done correctly and according to the IRS code.  She also provided essential tax advice when I was launching my new business.  I recommend Carla Brandt to everyone I know that is searching for honest, reputable accounting services.

Steve Melchin

Brad von Readen

Carla’s ongoing knowledge of an ever-evolving and very complex tax code along with her thorough and diligent skills have saved me thousands of dollars of overpayment to the I.R.S.  Her representation of me in an audit back in 1998 actually resulted in the I.R.S. owing me money.  This is all thanks to her amazing ability.

Brad von Readen

Robert Campbell

I have served as the Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee and latterly as Chair of the Audit Committee during my five years with The Arthritis Foundation, South Central Region Inc and have worked very closely with Carla Brandt during that period while she served as CFO/COO of the Foundation.  She is a self-starter, loyal, responsible, diligent, versatile and competent.  She is very experienced with all elements of managing a not-for-profit entity.

Robert Campbell